Zac Garrett

One of the major drawbacks to Linux is the lack of major games, especially first person shooters (FPS). It is hard to get a new batch of admins when all of the teenagers are running Windows so that they can play the latest games. This is the case with quite a few people that I talk to and its a huge problem. Linux is never going to make it as a mainstream OS until the game
manufacturers start producing their games for it. What Microsoft has
very well was to create a SDK (software development kit), DirectX, that
developers like to use. Since this is only available to Microsoft
products they have locked the developers into only using them. It is
difficult, it not impossible, to port those games to Linux when they
are programmed with DirectX. To see this in action just go to any
computer store that sells games and look for the DirectX logo, its
almost always going to be there.

Something most people do not
know or even want to realize is the fact that playstation’s are based
on Linux. That being said, there still is not more game development for
Linux desktop compatible games. Not being a developer myself I would
think that it would not take all that much work to get PS games to run
on Linux.

There are some not some well known games for Linux which you can find listed on wikipedia.